Rap Videos That Address Police Brutality

Scarface releases visuals for "Steer."

Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone – 'Ridin'' - Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone scored a No. 1 hit on Billboard with their racial profiling anthem "Ridin'." In the visual, The Texas MC is pulled over for DWB while he and the Bone spitter try to evade cops who wrongfully think they are up to something. (Photo: Universal Records)
Killer Mike – 'Pressure' - Killer Mike and Ice Cube led the Black Revolutionary charge when they dropped facts with "Pressure" and addressed America's treatment of Black people over the years and how overseers transitioned into some police forces through time. The high powered video includes clips of police officers terrorizing Black people during the civil rights era and before, as well as modern day whippings like the Rodney King beating.(Photo: Grind Time Official)
Public Enemy – 'Can't Truss It' - Public Enemy brought the noise with "Can't Truss It" in 1991 as they documented America's history of violence against African-Americans with their visual. Chuck, Flav and crew end the empowering clip with a re-enactment of Rodney King getting beat by a goon squad of pigs.(Photo: Island Def Jam Music Group)
Tupac – 'Trapped' - Tupac talked about being "Trapped" in the ghetto and his community being overseen by po-pos. The video shows Pac getting sweated by police but it also has an interesting twist as the crooked cop catches one after years of hunting down brothers.(Photo: Interscope Records)Geto Boys – 'Crooked Officer' - Scarface, Big Mike and Bushwick Bill waged war with the police and their harassing and murderous actions in their 1993 visual "Crooked Officer." Speaking about the Rodney King ordeal and beating which took place around the time, The Geto Boys used actual footage of police attacking Black people throughout the years as well as cops using gestapo tactics to make people confess to crimes and murders they didn't commit.(Photo: Rap-a-Lot Records)

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Killer Mike – 'Pressure' - Killer Mike and Ice Cube led the Black Revolutionary charge when they dropped facts with "Pressure" and addressed America's treatment of Black people over the years and how overseers transitioned into some police forces through time. The high powered video includes clips of police officers terrorizing Black people during the civil rights era and before, as well as modern day whippings like the Rodney King beating.(Photo: Grind Time Official)

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